This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 15 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1932
Page
1
A short verse by George du Maurier notes daily balance of work and play. It sketches warmth light love and farewell as life’s cycle continues with a hope for reaping what is sown.
The executive committee fixed the DeLeon basketball tourney for January 29–30 with a February 5–6 rain date if needed. Girls tourney follows the boys, and the County Meet is scheduled for March 25–26 in Comanche with weather contingency for April 1–2.
A serialized humor snippet features Mrs Hart and Mrs Diamond trading quips about husbands and towing, a Gunnery Office exchange about a browning head joke, and a crew member mispronouncing words while delivering a curtain line in a lighthearted naval page.
New York show girls are hardened by work and a dentist visit reveals a chorus girl reading a book while dental work proceeds. Underground miners face 35 psi air shifts to prevent the bends, a man loses two lines of life support yet survives. A novelty service repairs torn garments by weaving over holes, mainly run by French needleworkers earning good wages.
Frisco Magazine highlights Comanche Texas and two employees G W Jessup and W E Dupuy for long standing error free balance sheets since mid 1910s. Other Texas Lines stations Brownwood Stephenville Bluffdale Mercury Procter Tolar and Loring also posted error free records through late 1980.
J A Barton reports 1931 totals: 255 demonstrators and co-operatives submitted records with a net profit of 215000 dollars. 4-H clubs contributed about 5000 dollars. Demonstrations covered livestock poultry turkeys cotton oats wheat corn grain sorghums and seed treatments. Terracing 12000 acres were added this year bringing total terraced land to around 42000 across about 1000 farms.
R Armstrong announces candidacy for Tax Assessor of Comanche County subject to Democratic Primaries. Born and raised in the county he has surveyed the region twenty years, knows local surveys values school district and precinct lines. He pledges to meet every voter and thanks citizens for any consideration or favors.
Homer CC DeVote announces his candidacy for re election as Representative of the 104th District comprising Comanche and Mills Counties. He praises voter support, pledges honest efficient representation, and vows to continue devoted service if re elected.
The County Tax Assessor and Commissioners' Court approved a flat ten percent reduction in real estate values for this year affecting both city and farm properties. Example: a property valued 4000 last year would be assessed at 3600 this year. Livestock and automobile valuations were also adjusted with specific 1932 and earlier model ranges listed for horses, cattle, sheep, goats, and various vehicle categories.
Tax Assessor George R. Goosby announced a list of deputy tax assessors approved by the Commissioners Court. The appointees will work in Sidney, Sipe Springs, Beattie, De Leon, Energy, Van Dyke, Comanche, and Mercers Gap among other localities. Goosby and the deputies began tax assessments for the new year on Tuesday.
The Post Office will close at noon on Saturdays beginning January 30. Clerks will receive half-holidays on Saturdays per Washington instructions. Postmaster GEO. B. BLACK states the change.
Two hundred twenty five members of the Rebekahs and I O O F lodges from seven towns attended an inter city meeting in Comanche on Tuesday evening. Music readings dances and songs provided amusement after the business session a social hour followed with refreshments. Represented towns included Goldthwaite DeLeon Gorman Desdemona Dublin Stephenville and Hamilton.
County jury list for January 25 1932 includes Hobart figures such as Hobart Atterbury H C Bowman Jim Collins FE H Denny JL C Dillard T H Ferguson John Bradshaw Ed Guthrie C W Jones W H Kirkland R A McNutt G R Pratt Wiley Lee Paul Easley J J Coke r.
Gravel top will provide an all weather surface for Highway No 10 from Comanche to Dublin with a $24 902 54 per mile for 12 60 miles. Work starts immediately under Judge House and Division Engineer John Mead to add a 100 foot right of way fencing and plan hot topping. The project aims to connect Comanche Brownwood Ballinger to Coleman and widen tourism routes through the region.
Flowed and Leonard Steele were arrested in Comanche on alleged assault with attempt to rape charges. An examining trial was held Saturday before Justice Paul Davis of Gus tine in Bonner’s absence. Bonds were set at 3100000 each.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.